Excerpt from The World War: An Editorial Record of American Participation So was conceived the idea of compiling a vol ume of editorials. Covering American participa tion in the war, so arranged as to make a con tinuous and connected narrative of the primary events of the war from the sinking of the Lusi tania to the signing of the armistice. It is his tory told in the contemporaneous expressions of editorial 'opinion from day to day, without fore knowledge of the events of tomorrow. The his torian looks back upon a completed past, and calmly considers the relation of events that are finished. The editor is largely bound by the day. As a rule, he discusses what is occurring, and turns his eye upon the past only to bring it into relation with today. He deals largely with incompleted things, with history 111 the making, and his face is set toward the future rather than toward the past. So, such a com pilation as this becomes a progressive develop ment of fact and of opinion, and while it has the merit of the freshness of contemporaneity, of close attachment to the times, it lacks, the knowledge of the future which to the historian has become the past. However, View it as one Will, it is a contribution to history. At any rate, it is the record of a newspaper that realized its duty, its privilege and its responsibility, and endeavored loyally to play its part in the great drama. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.